Alligator Records Living Chicago Blues series Volumes 1 thru 4 are the gold standard for 1970's Blues. Originally issued in the late '70s on six LPs, every song in the collection has been put onto four CDs, each lasting over an hour long.
Volume 1
1. The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band - Your Turn To Cry 5:50
2. The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band - Serves Me Right To Suffer 4:00
3. The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band - Ain't That Just Like A Woman 3:14
4. The Jimmy Johnson Blues Band - Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home 4:46
5. Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang - It' Alright 2:56
6. Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang - Out Of Bad Luck 3:21
7. Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang - Stoop Down, Baby 4:03
8. Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang - Sitting On Top Of The World 3:43
9. Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang - My Baby's So Ugly 3:31
10. Left Hand Frank and His Blues Band - Come Home, Darling 4:06
11. Left Hand Frank and His Blues Band - Blues Won't Let Me Be 2:32
12. Left Hand Frank and His Blues Band - One Room Country Shack 4:31
13. Left Hand Frank and His Blues Band - Linda Lu 4:13
14. Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band - Too Late 2:43
15. Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band - Laundromat Blues 4:32
16. Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band - One Day 2:51
17. Carey Bell's Blues Harp Band - Woman In Trouble 4:43
Volume 2
1. The Lonnie Brooks Blues Band - Don't Answer That Door 4:16
2. The Lonnie Brooks Blues Band - Two Headed Man 3:29
3. The Lonnie Brooks Blues Band - Cold, Lonely Nights 4:45
4. The Lonnie Brooks Blues Band - Move Over, Little Dog 4:14
5. Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker - Would You, Baby? 3:26
6. Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker - Worry, Worry 4:17
7. Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker - Sunnyland Blues 2:51
8. Johnny 'Big Moose' Walker - Cry, Cry Darling 3:22
9. Magic Slim and the Teardrops - Stranded On The Highway 4:27
10. Magic Slim and the Teardrops - Dirty Mother For You 5:09
11. Magic Slim and the Teardrops - Spider In My Stew 4:22
12. Magic Slim and the Teardrops - Don't Say That No More 3:44
13. Pinetop Perkins - Take It Easy, Baby 3:31
14. Pinetop Perkins - Blues After Hours 5:03
15. Pinetop Perkins - Little Angel Child 5:18
16. Pinetop Perkins - How Much More Long 3:32
Volume 3
1. A.C Reed & the Sparkplugs - Hard Times 3:18
2. A.C Reed & the Sparkplugs - She's Fine 4:18
3. A.C Reed & the Sparkplugs - Moving out of the Ghetto 3:55
4. A.C Reed & the Sparkplugs - Going to New York 3:38
5. Scotty & the Rib Tips - Big Leg Woman 3:43
6. Scotty & the Rib Tips - Careless With Our Love 3:03
7. Scotty & the Rib Tips - Road Block 2:50
8. Scotty & the Rib Tips - Poison Ivy 3:17
9. Louie Lee with Carey Bell - I Dare You 2:50
10. Louie Lee with Carey Bell - Nobody Knows My Troubles 5:18
11. Louie Lee with Carey Bell - Sweet Little Girl 3:16
12. Louie Lee with Carey Bell - Naptown 3:03
13. Lacy Gibson - Drown In My Own Tears 4:43
14. Lacy Gibson - Crying for You Baby 2:49
15. Lacy Gibson - Feel So Bad 3:55
16. The Sons of Blues - Wish Me Well 2:57
17. The Sons of Blues - Have You Ever Loved a Woman 6:12
18. The Sons of Blues - Berlin Wall 4:27
19. The Sons of Blues - Prisner of the Blues 4:16
Volume 4
1. Detroit Junior - If I Hadn't Been High 4:04
2. Detroit Junior - Some Nerve 3:04
3. Detroit Junior - Sombody to Shack 5:21
4. Detroit Junior - I Got Money 2:36
5. Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson - Somebody Have Mercy 3:03
6. Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson - Got to have Money 3:19
7. Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson - Just Like Mama Said 3:02
8. Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson - Look What You Done 3:50
9. Queen Sylvia Embry - Going Upstairs 4:59
10. Queen Sylvia Embry - Blues This Morning 2:07
11. Queen Sylvia Embry - Tired of being Pushed Around 2:53
12. Queen Sylvia Embry - Please Let Me Stay 4:31
13. Big Leon Brooks - Blues for a Real Man 3:33
14. Big Leon Brooks - Thirteen Years in Prison 3:04
15. Big Leon Brooks - Country Boy 4:22
16. Big Leon Brooks - My Life Ain't the Same 3:18
17. Andrew Brown - I Got News for you 5:00
18. Andrew Brown - Morning, Noon and Night 3:42
19. Andrew Brown - Two Years 4:01